Flood-control dams
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| # | Name | Country | height |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dworshak Dam | USA | 218.5000 m |
| 2 | Tokuyama Dam | Japan | 161 m |
| 3 | Naramata Dam | Japan | 158 m |
| 4 | Urayama Dam (Saitama) | Japan | 156 m |
| 5 | Miyagase Dam | Japan | 156 m |
| 6 | Nukui Dam | Japan | 156 m |
| 7 | Sakuma Dam | Japan | 155.5000 m |
| 8 | Tedorigawa Dam | Japan | 153 m |
| 9 | Liujiaxia Dam | China | 147 m |
| 10 | Adıgüzel Dam | Turkey | 144 m |
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Repair of the Grančarevo Dam in Bosnia and Herzegovina
The Grančarevo Dam is located on the Trebišnjica River in the southeast of Bosnia and Herzegovina near its border with Montenegro. With 123 m, this arch dam, near the town of Gornje Grančarevo in the municipality of Trebinije, is the cou ... [more]
Lift-off tests at West Point Dam and Robert F. Henry Dam
In the 1960s and 70s, the US Army Corps of Engineers regularly used high-strength, smooth, post-tension steel bar tendons for trunnion girder anchorages in many of the dams constructed in this period. These are the structural elements th ... [more]
Literature
- (2005): Development Of A Distributed Rainfall-runoff Prediction System And Assessment Of The Flood Control Ability Of Dams. In: 土木学会論文集 (Doboku Gakkai rombunshū), v. 2005, n. 803 ( 2005), pp. 803_13-803_27.
- (1961): Hydrology and Flood Control Features of Oroville Dam. In: Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, v. 126, n. 4 ( 1961), pp. 473-491.
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